Lessons for integrated household energy conservation policies from an intervention study in Singapore

Kua, Harn Wei; Wong, S.E.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.009

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“…The findings that environmental awareness and cost saving are motivations for practicing pro-environmental behavior, and inconvenience discourages such behaviors, are also supported by other Singapore-based household studies [49,50].…”

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confidence: 65%

A case study on the individual energy use of personal computers in an office setting and assessment of various feedback types toward energy savings

Kamilaris¹,

Neovino²,

Kondepudi³

et al. 2015

Energy and Buildings

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

A case study on the individual energy use of personal computers in an office setting and assessment of various feedback types toward energy savings

Kamilaris¹,

Neovino²,

Kondepudi³

et al. 2015

Energy and Buildings

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“…Any Hawthorne effect (which is the phenomenon that people modify or improve their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed) was measured and accounted for among all of these groups, so that we can accurately attribute any energy savings to the intervention administered. Both cases followed the analytical framework proposed by He and Kua [38], and Kua and Wong [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

Are People Responsive to a More Sustainable, Decentralized, and User-Driven Management of Urban Metabolism?

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Smart, green, and resilient city paradigms have been mainly promoted through top-down and technocratic approaches. However, based on the notion to return to "the right to the city", emerging community-driven initiatives are providing self-managed infrastructures contributing to urban sustainability transitions. This paper explores the relevance of the behavioral aspects of people-centered approaches in dealing with two different facets of urban metabolism: physical infrastructure (involvement with the management of decentralized infrastructures) and consumption patterns (involvement in proactive reduction of resources used). In the first case we assessed community perceptions about the roles, benefits, and willingness to proactively engage in the management of decentralized green infrastructures in Bogotá City, Colombia. For the second facet, we measured the effectiveness of change agents in re-shaping energy consumption decisions within urban social networks in South Africa and Saudi Arabia. This paper's results show that pre-determined and standardized strategies do not guarantee positive, nor homogeneous, results in terms of meeting sustainability targets, or promoting community involvement. Hence, a better integration of people-centered and top-down approaches is needed through context-dependent policies, for enhancing both users' appreciation of and commitment to urban metabolism participative management.

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“…It was more common to treat energy consumers as individuals than as households. Six articles treated individuals as energy consumers [40][41][42][43][44][45], while five articles treated energy users as individuals [46][47][48][49][50].…”

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Who Is Behaving? Consequences for Energy Policy of Concept Confusion

Ellegård

Palm

2015

Energies

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Policies to reduce household energy use usually target the individual customer. This is probably one explanation for the limited effect of many information policies, because two concepts with different meanings are confused: individual and household. In most contexts, an individual stands for what s/he does, but in the policy context, an individual is taken to represent the entire household. This is not problematic for a single-person household, but, in a multi-person household, activities performed by different household members influence the whole household's energy use. This paper illuminates problems arising from confusing the concepts of household and individual when developing policies to reduce household energy use. Examples relate to indoor space heating and energy-intensive home-based activities. The results indicate that it is analytically simple to consider individuals at home, as well as their activities using electrical appliances contributing to heating, but much more complicated to take the whole household into consideration. Our model provides a basis for better-targeted information actions to reduce energy use. Also, empirically based models capturing variations between households with different activity patterns are important for developing policies resulting in reduced energy use for space heating in multi-person households.

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Lessons for integrated household energy conservation policies from an intervention study in Singapore

Cited by 37 publications

References 39 publications

A case study on the individual energy use of personal computers in an office setting and assessment of various feedback types toward energy savings

A case study on the individual energy use of personal computers in an office setting and assessment of various feedback types toward energy savings

Are People Responsive to a More Sustainable, Decentralized, and User-Driven Management of Urban Metabolism?

Who Is Behaving? Consequences for Energy Policy of Concept Confusion

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